i was playing around with samba 2.2.8a on FreeBSD 5.2.1 tonight, and had everything working (smbclient -L hostname showed my server), but i was having trouble mounting the drive. was giving me errors saying the -o option was not supported when using "mount -t smbd -o username=user,password=pass //HP/share /mnt/share

I found your post about Sharity-light, installed it and it worked like a champ the first time around. i added the command to my startup script. Just wanted to say thanks for sharing this info!